2020-05-21

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2020-05-21 12:25 am
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantino_planisphere


How should I model white spaces, i.e. somewhat known unknowns?
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2020-05-21 11:41 am

Even more good news and some bad news

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-21/if-i-had-covid-19-am-i-immune-what-scientists-know-so-far

To summarize:
1) Both animal and human studies show that the immune system has primary and auxiliary responses to the novel coronavirus. Background papers:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/19/science.abc4776 (Science)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.015 (Cell)

2) Currently, antibody tests are not reliable enough to make individual and population-wide conclusions about immunity.
https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/immunology/5/47/eabc6347.full.pdf (Science Immunology)
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2020-05-21 11:52 am
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Mark Cuban articulated it the best about what's wrong with Trump: he is the most powerful man in the world, yet he always plays the victim card.

Given the dismal performance of the US government during the coronavirus epidemic, any CEO who had ample warnings about the problem and, practically, unlimited resources to deal with it, would be fired for failing on his KPIs.
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2020-05-21 05:08 pm

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Ужасно смешно читать, как советские программисты авторитетно рассуждают о научном методе. Особенно развлекает, что они готовы подвергать декартовскому сомнению все, кроме собственного понимания науки.